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Turkish authorities have arrested the cafeteria manager of the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper for insulting the president after he said he would not serve tea to Tayyip Erdogan, one of the manager's lawyers told Reuters on Monday. Senol Buran, who runs the cafeteria at the Istanbul office of Cumhuriyet, was taken into custody after police raided his home late on Saturday, lawyer Ozgur Urfa said. The newspaper is among the few still critical of the government. Insulting the president is a crime punishable by up to four years in prison in Turkey.
[...] Buran was detained after a police officer providing security for the newspaper said he heard him use a derogatory term to describe Erdogan and say he would refuse to serve the president tea if he ever visited the cafeteria, his lawyer said. According to court documents obtained by Reuters, Buran has denied using an insulting term, while confirming that he had said he would refuse to serve the president tea. He also said he had a dispute with the police officer two years ago.
The judge at an Istanbul court on Sunday ordered Buran's arrest pending trial, citing "strong suspicion of crime committed" and saying the suspect might otherwise put pressure on witnesses, the documents showed.
Previously: Turkey's Erdogan Continues Crackdown on Media with Detention of Cumhuriyet Newspaper Staff (same newspaper)
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @05:36AM
Turkey has jailed or executed anyone who disagrees with their dictator.
Russia is invading Ukraine and helping Syria commit genocide.
The US has been occupying Iraq and Afghanistan and hacking all our enemies, sometimes openly.
China has taken over Taiwan and Tibet by force, and is building islands in no-man's lands
Iran is building nukes even those they promised not to, and takes our soldiers hostage with impunity.
But oh no! Let's ignore all that and condemn Israel for the crime of keeping some land they won after savages declared war on them and lost.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @06:02AM
Israel is occupying the land of people who don't want them there, and repressing their economy and human rights. As long as that continues, Israel will continue to face international backlash. One solution would be for one of the groups to kill off everyone in the other group.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @01:08PM
As long as that continues, Israel will continue to face international backlash.
Nobody gives a fuck about the UN's opinion. Israel would have more to worry about if they were condemned by Disney.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @05:20PM
Then why are they crying about it like such whiney little bitches ?
The simple fact is that Israel was founded by a bunch of anti-semitic, racist, predominantly FOREIGN, terrorist bums who invaded Palestine with the goal of setting up a religious state, complete with religious courts and where women are LEGALLY their husband's PROPERTY. There is literally NO difference between Israel and ISIS except the brand of religious 'state' they founded. Despite over half a century of handouts from the US taxpayer, these bums are still unable to fund their own lifestyle and still rely on billions of taxpayer money per annum to support them in the fashion to which they have become accustomed. They have continually STARTED wars of aggression against all their neighbours to steal territory which they claim their magic sky friend promised them, all funded by US taxpayer money while the US's own infrastructure crumbles. So lets start Making America Great Again by dumping these bums and spend US taxpayer money on the US instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 30 2016, @06:15PM
All well said and correct. I would also add the fact that Israel was founded by the UN so maybe they should care. Resolution 181(II)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @06:20PM
One solution would be for one of the groups to kill off everyone in the other group.
Do you have a newsletter? Asking for a friend.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @07:36AM
Jewish?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @07:55AM
Nuke us all from orbit, it is the only way to be sure.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Thursday December 29 2016, @09:34AM
So your argument is: "Others do wrong things, so nobody has the right to complain about the wrong things we do"?
Anyway, China has not taken over Taiwan. They claim it to be part of China, but unlike Tibet, they don't actually control it (whether that remains so will be seen).
BTW, where is the evidence of Iran building nukes?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 29 2016, @05:26PM
Well, the Zionists are irrefutably wrong in their illegal occupation and general ethnic cleansing and they know it => they have no counter argument to present, so their only strategy is to distract attention from their crimes (by citing what others are doing), or the more usual strategy of closing down all discussion of the subject via ad-hominem attacks on anyone who dares to broach the subject. Really they are an abhorrent bunch of scumbags, and just think, as an American, billions of your tax dollars are spent every year to prop up these anti-semitic, racist bums.
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Friday December 30 2016, @09:25AM
> China has taken over Taiwan [...] by force [...]
This is true. Ming loyalists expelled the Dutch in 1661, hoping to use Taiwan as a base from which to overthrow the Qing dynasty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Tungning [wikipedia.org]
> Iran is building nukes even those they promised not to, and takes our soldiers hostage with impunity.
Where was it that you heard this?